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Flash Flood — Cabell, WV

Aug 22, 2014

Several days with rounds of showers and thunderstorms continued on Friday the 22nd. The area was in the active storm track, in the northwest flow aloft, from the Midwest into the central Appalachians.||Clusters showers and thunderstorms formed during the late afternoon hours and moved through southern West Virginia, especially counties in the Tug Fork and Guyandotte River Valleys. Rains of 2 to 3 inches in 1 to 2 hours fell in the downpours. The automatic gauge at the Tri State Airport in nor

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 529764). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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